Results for: a camp
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29 Weirdest Pictures From Our Queer Prom
We had a queer prom on top of a mountain. There were photographs. Some of these prom-goers were pretty f*cking special.
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Ode to My Pack Sack: Marshmallows
The only Camping Wisdom I have acquired is that rocky riverbeds make terrible beds and chopping wood’s hard. Oh, and marshmallows need to be toasted and consumed in large quantities.
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Make A Thing: Making Mountains On The Mountain
Tiny little mountains to snuggle on or off the mountain.
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Make A Thing: Merit Badges
Making merit badges is significantly easier than earning them.
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Just Take It Bird By Bird: On Personal Writing
Writing about your own experiences, whether it’s through memoir or essay or slam poetry or leaving post-its about the sandwiches your mom used to make for your lunch on lampposts, can be empowering and life-changing, even without anyone else reading it.
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DIY Beauty Bar: Bottle Cap Clamshell
Eat your heart out, Etsy.
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DIY Beauty Bar: Sweet and Tough Olive Oil Scrub
You’re just 5 minutes and a bit of kitchen chemistry away from smooth skin.
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Liquor on the Mountain: Taste These Whiskeys!
We’re going to update you on all the whiskeys our group will be tasting on the mountain so your presumably now-formed queer whiskey tasting friend-group can taste along with us. And our brand new obsession? Hudson Whiskey.
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Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire
Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.
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Top 10 Fictional Bands
Because sometimes fictional bands are better than real bands.
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Let’s Pick Flowers, Save Flowers, Make Flower-Saving Books Together
Get ready to get sunny, crafty, and a little more adorable.
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Nerdcraft: Craft Like a Nerd With Perler Bead Sprites
You, too, can put together your own bead sprites in the shape of 1-up mushrooms, Pokémon and the TARDIS. Gather up your geeks and go.
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LISTEN: “Waterfalls” / “She Keeps Me Warm” Mashup By The Autostraddle Family Band
We recorded a song for you!
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Straddler On The Mountain: Mel
Mel won the Kipper Clothiers campership this time around, and you’ll know why when you see her amazing style. A third-time camper and longtime reader, she talks about Toronto, working at a hotel, her Filipino family, and (duh) A-Camp.
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Straddler On The Mountain: Brooklyn
Say hi to Brooklyn – she’s a campership winner Texan trans* girl who spoke openly and honestly about her unsupportive family, being homeless and the importance of having a loving community to fall back on.
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Geek Things You Should Know About
Gettin’ geeky with it.
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Introducing Camp Autostraddle XI
Join Roxane Gay, Be Steadwell, Nia & Ness, Gaby Dunn, Brittani Nichols and 400 LGBTQ women, non-binary people and other trans folks for five days of fun fun fun in Ojai, California!
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It’s A-Camp 2019 Campership Time: Apply For One, Donate Some Money
Read essays from our 2018 A-Camp Campership recipients and find out how to help send more lucky campers to this year’s celebration in Ojai!
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A-Camp 2018, We Hold You In Our Hearts: The Autostraddle Roundtable
“I feel like this camp everyone really got to be their best, most honest and weirdest selves — for instance, and bear with me, when Sam and Riese and I created an intense trivia experience centered entirely around cults, true crime and murder and not only did people show up but many of the questions were TOO EASY FOR THEM.”
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Nervous About A-Camp? Let’s Do Some Grounding
What I’m getting at here is that staying grounded (even though it sounds like an oxymoron) gives you the ability to move.